Stories of Terror and the Supernatural ed. Herman Graf (Skyhorse Publishing, September 2013, 978-1-62636-254-3, $14.95, 423pp, tp, an)
Anthology of 22 classic horror stories, by authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, and Washington Irving. E-book also available.
Details taken from online listing.
- · La Grande Bretèche · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, 1890, as “An Accursed House”
translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831).
- · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843
- · A Terribly Strange Bed · William Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited.
- · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883
- · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.
- · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited.
- · Sir Edmund Orme · Henry James · nv Black & White November 25 1891
- · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant · nv The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Le Horla”, Gil Blas, October 26, 1886).
- · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887).
- · The Furnished Room · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World August 14 1904
- · The Great God Pan · Arthur Machen · na The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1894
a portion appeared earlier in The Whirlwind, Dec 13, 1890.
- · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray”
- · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911
- · The Dead Hand · William Wilkie Collins · nv Household Words #394, October 10 1857
originally published as “The Double-Bedded Room,” part of Chapter 2 of “The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices”, a collaboration with Charles Dickens.
- · The Suicide Club · Robert Louis Stevenson · gp (r)
- _ · Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv London June 8 1878 (+2)
- _ · Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss London June 29 1878 (+2)
- _ · The Adventure of the Hansom Cab · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss London July 20 1878 (+1)
- · The Adventure of the German Student · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- · The Christmas Banquet · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1843
- · How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery · E. F. Benson · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1911
- · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912
- · Napoleon and the Spectre · Charlotte Brontë · ss C. Shorter, 1919
- · The Affair at Grover Station · Willa Cather · ss The Library June 16 1900 (+1)
- · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891
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